looking for replies from someone who owns a 144hz, 165hz or 240hz gaming monitorQuestions:

Have you tried several monitors with different hz? Is there a difference when playing Quake?

When the fps are lower than the refresh rate, do you notice lag, or its still smooth?

do you ever activate v-sync?

i had other questions but (a) the login session expired and lost the text and (b) eventually reading this and this was enough

1. My old CRT monitor did around 75hz. When it died (blue beam went bad), I got a new 144hz monitor. Difference was clear as day.2. IDK about lag (never came to mind), but when I played on my old computer, having 20-25 fps was quite painful (poor aim tracking).3. Never in a FPS, but yes in a game meant for VSync, namely old school games in the NES, GENESIS/MEGADRIVE, VIC-20 and C64 era.

looking for replies from someone who owns a 144hz, 165hz or 240hz gaming monitorQuestions:

Have you tried several monitors with different hz? Is there a difference when playing Quake?

When the fps are lower than the refresh rate, do you notice lag, or its still smooth?

do you ever activate v-sync?

i had other questions but (a) the login session expired and lost the text and (b) eventually reading this and this was enough

1) Yes and yes although there are diminishing returns2) On modern hardware you should never get fps lower than refresh rate (at least with ezquake 3.5) but if you do it would be less smooth. Things like Gsync/Freesync can help with this (they automatically lower refresh rate to match framerate) but even with vsync disabled I have heard it suggested that this may introduce a small lag so you might not want that enabled in QW, this would be more for other games you might play.3) No, vsync is inherently bad for competitive FPS